Cigarette holder



I. Q. GURNEE ET AL,

July 27, 1926.

CIGARETTE HOLDER Filed Feb. 26. 1925 ATTORNEY Patented 27, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT orrlcs.

ISAAC Q. GUBNEE, OI BUTLEB, AND ALBERT A. SMITH, 0F RIVEBDALE, NEW JERSEY.

CIGARETTE HOLDER.

Application filed February 26, 1925. Serial No. 11,799.

This invention relates to improvements in cigarette holders, particularly cigarette holders constructed to eject the stub of the cigarette when the smoker has fiIllSl'lGd.

An object of the invention is to provide a cigarette or cigar holder of superior simplicit-y in design, and exceedingly low cost of manufacture; and comprising parts which-require a minimum amount of time and labor in assembling.

The nature and advantages of the invention are clearly set forth in the following description, and the novel features thereof are pointed out in the appended claim. But we, of course, do not limit ourselves to the exact structure shown, and we reserve the right to make such changes in details as are within the sec e and spirit of the invention, as indicated y the broad meanings of the termsin which the claim is expressed.

On the drawings The figure shows in longitudinal section a cigarette holder according to our invention.

The holder includes a socket piece 1 hav a longitudinal bore; the socket piece 1 icing so made that the bore is open at both ends. This bore is constituted of a section 2 of relatively large diameter; into the end of which a cigarette can be thrust, and a section 3 of smaller diameter; the two sections being separated by an internal collar 4. In the section 3, and projecting beyond the collar 4, is the extremity of a stem 5. Both the piece 1 and stem 5 are preferably made of molded rubber, or si1nilar suitable material.

, The stem or mouthpiece 5 has a longitudinal open ended duct 6; and on its exterior, at the extremity which enters the socket 1, it has a wide circumferential groove or recess 7 The extremity in question thus terminates in a flange orhead. 8. Between the flange 8 and shoulder 9 at the opposite side of the groove 7, the stem is encircled by a spring 10, made fast at one end adjacent the shoulder 9, but otherwise ,free, so that its coils can slide on the reduced portion of the stem constituting the bottom of the groove 7. Hence when the piece 1 and stem 5 are assembled so that the flange'8 is disposed on one side of the collar 4, inside the section 2 of the bore in the piece 1, while the spring 10 is arranged in the section 3, seating against the opposite side of the collar 4, and the shoulder 9, the stem is normally held so that the flange 8 thereon makes contact with the collar 4. But when the cigarette 1s to be expelled from the holder, pressure on the stem 1 moves the stem against the folt'ce of the spring .10 and pushes the stub ou The flange 8 on the inner extremity of the stem 1 is a little larger in diameter than the inside diameter practice the piece 1 and stem 5, with the spring 10 encircling it are made' separately. Then the rubber socketv piece 1 is heated and thus softened and the stem 5 inserted into it. The softening-of the rubber allows the rubber to stretch so that the flange 8 on the stem easily slips through the collar 4, but the loose end of the spring 10 seats against the side of the collar 4 in the section 3 of the bore through the piece 1. When the iece 1 cools and hardens the stem 5 cannot e withdrawn, and the twoparts are thus assembled permanently.

A cigarette holder of this type and method of production is not only efiicient and durable, but consists of the minimum number of parts, and can be manufactured at veg small expense.

aving described our invention, what we believe to be new and desire to secure and protect by Letters Patent of the United States is The process of manufacturing, a cigar or cigarette holder which consists in forming a stem with an enlarged extremity, and a socket piece with a bore therethrough, of less diameter at one point than the thickness of said enlarged extremity, then treating the socket piece to soften it at said point, thrusting said extremity of the stem into said socket piece past said point, and then allowing said socket piece to harden and prevent withdrawal of said stem.

In testimony whereof we ailix our signatures.

ISAAC Q. GURNEE. ALBERT A. SMITH.

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